OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Law and Psychiatry is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Conflicting purposes: Guardianship law, mental health law and involuntary detentions	13
PTSD malingering detection in damage claim cases: Diagnostic accuracy in cases of personal injury as a result of motor vehicle accidents	12
Use of the least intrusive coercion at Danish psychiatric wards: A register-based cohort study of 131,632 first and subsequent coercive episodes within 35,812 admissions	12
The p factor, crime, and criminal justice: A criminological study of Caspi et al.'s general psychopathology general theory	12
Editorial Board	12
‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983	11
Men placed on waiting lists for psychiatric admission from Irish Prisons over five years: Clinical outcomes during a forensic “bed crisis”	11
Examining the health and criminal justice characteristics for young people on compulsory community treatment orders: An Australian birth cohort and data linkage study	10
Community treatment orders: A qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives	10
Editorial Board	9
Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future	9
Culpability for offenses in frontotemporal dementia and other brain disorders	9
RIGHTCARE-PR: Reporting guidelines for human rights in child and adolescent psychiatry	8
Influencing factors for assessment of criminal responsibility in patients with mental disorders: A forensic case analysis between 2010 and 2020	8
Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion	8
Comparisons of beliefs in mental health stigma in communities and those who police them	8
Privacy and safety: Issues of dual compliance in high-secure and other forensic psychiatric hospitals	7
The psychometric properties of the Forensic Stigma Scale (FSS)	7
Diagnosing psychopathy in an intercultural setting: Applications and implications in postcolonial contemporary Mayotte	7
A repertoire and critical review of international resources relevant to medical assistance in dying where a mental disorder is the sole underlying medical condition	7
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and suggestibility: A survey of United States federal case law	7
Is this an underestimated problem? Using coercion before psychiatric hospitalization	7
Blurred boundaries: Community treatment orders as instruments of racial surveillance	7
Capacity and incapacity: An appropriate border for non-consensual interventions?	7
Editorial Board	6

A framework for the evidence-based practice of therapeutic jurisprudence: A legal therapeutic alliance	6
The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa	6
Assessing the validity of self-report of psychopathy short-form (SRP-SF) in incarcerated offenders from Chile and Uruguay	6
Large language models and psychiatry	6
Predictors of recovery in a medium secure service: Influence of the Welsh Government's Mental Health (2010) Measure	6
Forensic aspects of dissociative positive symptoms in trauma-related disorders and borderline personality disorder	6
Evaluation of the sensitivity of the Health Screening of People in Police Custody (HELP-PC) tool in Northumbria Police, UK	6
England and Wales draft Mental Health Bill: Implications for people with intellectual disabilities	5
Policing psychiatric illness: An organisational paradox for Health & Law	5
Perception of the criminality of attempted suicide in Nepal and its impact on suicide reporting	5
Forensic psychiatry patients, services, and legislation in Nunavut and Greenland	5
Developmental factors in forensic assessments of children over the minimum age of criminal responsibility: A study of forensic reports in Norway 2013–2024	5
Role of psychopathology on children credibility of sexual abuse testimony	5
Remodelling criminal insanity: Exploring philosophical, legal, and medical premises of the medical model used in Norwegian law	5
Abolition of coercion in mental health services – A European survey of feasibility	5
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and decision-making: Legal & ethical hurdles for implementation in mental health	5
Homicides by offenders with psychotic illness in Italy and Turkiye: A comparison of offender and crime-scene profiles	5
The violence profile of male mentally disordered offenders in a high secure unit in Turkiye	4
Control in the community: A qualitative analysis of the experience of persons on conditional discharge in Hong Kong	4
Effects of psychological torture and cybertorture with emerging digital technologies under anti-torture legal obligations in China: A mixed methods research in risks and remedies	4
Attitudes and ethical beliefs of Russian psychiatrists towards the use of coercive treatment practices	4
Sociodemographic, psychiatric and criminal characteristics of elderly offenders under evaluation for criminal responsibility in Turkey	4
Restricted patients in New Zealand: A failed social experiment with a hybrid form of civil/forensic compulsory mental health treatment	4
‘Evaluation of testamentary capacity: A systematic review’	4
Criminal insanity in Bulgaria and Norway: Analysing the prospect of a common approach	4
Police use of force standards and mental health crises in the United States: Identifying research and policymaking targets	4
Does adolescent drug use belong on the antisocial spectrum? Mediating the drug–crime connection with cognitive impulsivity	4
The contribution of psychopathic traits and substance use in the prediction of recidivism of sexual offenders	4
Antisocial personality disorder and determinants among prisoners in South Gondar zone correctional institutions, Northwest Ethiopia: An institution-based cross-sectional study	4
Contextual factors influencing the use of coercive measures in Portuguese mental health care	4
Editorial Board	4
Exploring structural stigma towards mental disorders: An analysis of trial verdicts	3
The use of coercive measures in a high security setting in Belgium: Prevalence and risk factors	3
Bias analysis in forensic and non-forensic psychiatric assessments	3
The collaborative development through multidisciplinary and advocate consensus of an accessible notice of rights for people with intellectual disabilities in police custody	3
Perspectives on the eligibility criteria for euthanasia for mental suffering caused by psychiatric disorder under the Belgian Euthanasia Law: A qualitative interview study among mental healthcare work	3
Artificial intelligence in insanity evaluation. Potential opportunities and current challenges	3
Mind over matter: Mental illness and sentencing outcomes among homicide cases in Singapore	3
Mental health disorders, adverse childhood experiences and accelerated reoffending among justice-involved youth in Australia: A longitudinal recurrent event analysis	3
A mixed-methods analysis of the influence of bio-behavioral scientific evidence on U.S. judges' reasoning and sentencing decision-making	3
An International Comparison of Psychiatric Advance Directive Policy: Across eleven jurisdictions and alongside advance directive policy	3
Means of restraint in residential care when there is no acute danger. Time for the European committee on the prevention of torture to set the standard	3
Editorial Board	3
Editorial Board	3
Mental health professionals' perceptions and attitudes towards seclusion: The ambivalent relationship between safety and therapeutic considerations	3
Editorial Board	3
Modeling the effects of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police officers: How knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy drive de-escalation skills and referral decisions	3
Cognitive biases in forensic psychiatry: A scoping review	3
Editorial Board	3
Compulsory treatment in Portuguese-speaking countries: An analysis and comparison of the legal framework	3

Assessing mental capacity in the context of abuse and neglect: A relational lens	3
Homicide perpetrators with psychotic illness found not criminally responsible in Turkiye and Russia: An international comparison	3
The use of community treatment orders in people with substance induced psychosis	3
The Dutch Compulsory Care Act: Possible effects on emergency involuntary admissions, treatment, and length of stay	2
Forensic psychiatry assessment and human rights in Ukraine: response to Butenko et al's paper ‘Forensic psychiatry misuse in proceedings of administrative offenses’ (2023)Type of submission	2
Individual liberty, safety and police liabilities under the mental health (care and treatment) act	2
Adult safeguarding legislation: Navigating the borderlands between mental capacity, mental health and social care law and practice	2
Coercive measures in disability and mental health care services: Mechanical restraints from a bioethical and legal perspective in Spain	2
“It just felt like a rubber stamp”: Family experiences of mental health review board hearings in Ontario, Canada	2
Stakeholder experiences with compulsory treatment at home: A focus-group study	2
Criminal responsibility evaluations: Benchmarking in different countries	2
Editorial Board	2
Unreasonable minds and imperfect self-defense	2
Restricted patients and detention in the community: The human rights implications of supervised discharge under the Mental Health Bill 2025	2
Hospital break. An eight-year review of escapes and absconds from two high security forensic centers	2
Personality disorder, mental capacity and compulsory intervention	2
Editorial Board	2
Decision-making by and for adults with impaired capacity: The potential of the Dutch levenstestament	2
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: An overview	2
Risk factors for involuntary admission in a Romanian patient sample	2
Decision-making capacity law developments in Aotearoa New Zealand	2
Using the interRAI brief mental health screener to identify persons with mental disorders having repeat contact with police	2
Legal consciousness of psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals: Awareness and satisfaction	2
Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law	2
Between psychopathy and deviant socialization: A close look at the mafia men	2
Mental health, medical incapacity, and political leadership in the United Kingdom: A multidisciplinary analysis of the intersections between psychiatry and constitutional law	2
No man's land: Troubling the borders of mental health and capacity law	2
Community reentry: Racial/ethnic differences in unmet needs among adults with co-occurring opioid use and mental health disorder	1
Experts' decision-making processes in Swedish forensic psychiatric investigations: A case vignette study	1
Rational capacity and criminal responsibility in the USA	1
A systematic mapping review identifying key features of restraint research in inpatient pediatric psychiatry: A human rights perspective	1
A shifting paradigm? A scoping review of the factors influencing recovery and rehabilitation in recent forensic research	1
Editorial Board	1
Criminal legal system contact in fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD): Experiences and support needs	1
The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?	1
Editorial Board	1
Abolition: Is this the only pathway to upholding human rights and ensuring epistemic justice in psychiatry? A key informant qualitative study	1
Factors influencing decision-making capacity assessments in involuntary care and treatment in Norway: A qualitative exploration of multi-stakeholder perspectives	1
The influence of the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities on the European court of human rights in the area of mental health law: Divergence and unexplored potential	1
Criminal recidivism of patients in Swedish forensic psychiatry: A register-based comparison study	1
Editorial Board	1
Cognition in older offenders in North Rhine-Westphalia: A comparison of prisoners and patients in forensic psychiatry hospitals	1
The effects of forensic mental health reports on decisions about guilt in the Netherlands: An experimental approach	1
Corrigendum to ‘The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people’ [International Journ	1
The importation model mediated: New evidence for security threat group in the prediction of prison misconduct	1
Stigma management during reintegration of older incarcerated adults with mental health issues: A qualitative analysis	1
What place has ‘capacity’ in the criminal law relating to sex post JB?	1
Quality of life after involuntary psychiatric admission	1
Correlates and predictors of re-incarceration among Turkish adolescent male offenders: A single-center, cross-sectional study	1
The mediating role of state anger in the associations between intentions to participate in the criminal trial and psychopathology in traumatically bereaved people	1
Elusive cases in forensic psychiatry? Exploring subgroups of schizophrenia spectrum disorder patients in Germany	1
Global prevalence of borderline personality disorder and self-reported symptoms of adults in prison: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Australian and New Zealand doctors' experiences of disciplinary notifications, investigations, proceedings and interventions relating to alleged mental health impairment: a qualitative analysis of int	1
Overview of forensic outpatients on the Medical Treatment and Supervision Act in Japan	1
Perceived fairness as main determinant of patients' satisfaction with care during psychiatric hospitalisation: An observational study	1
Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.	1
Editorial Board	1
The Mental Health Bill 2024 in the Republic of Ireland: Potential implications for adults with intellectual disabilities	1
Recidivism among forensic psychiatric patients undergoing outpatient treatment for mental health disorders – A meta-analysis	1
Validity and reliability of Mexican version of MacArthur competence assessment tool for treatment decision (MacCAT-T) in patients with schizophrenia	1
The rights to legal capacity, personal freedom, and safety during psychiatric hospitalizations at a general hospital	1
“Everyone means well but the one person who's really going to go to bat” - experiences and perspectives of substitute decision makers in caring for their loved ones with serious mental illness	1
RECAPACITA project: Comparing neuropsychological profiles in people with severe mental disorders, with and without capacity modification	1
Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia – Clinician perspectives	1
Editorial Board	1
Psychiatric evaluations for adolescent offenders with delinquency in Taiwan	1